Shireen Rose Shakouri

Shireen Rose Shakouri is deputy director of Reproaction, where she helps lead their work increasing access to abortion and advancing reproductive justice. She is trained as an abortion doula and serves as a clinic escort at a D.C. clinic. She is Iranian and Italian-American, and has a fire in her belly for reproductive justice work largely driven by a commitment to affirming the leadership of Earth-colored people, with direct action and direct service as her favored tools. This drive led her to building hard-hitting campaigns and managing special research projects at Reproaction before she was promoted to leadership in early 2021. She is also an at-large board member of Abortion Care Network.

Shireen has written for HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Bitch Media, and others on issues of racial identity, reproductive health, social movement building, film criticism, and more.

In her spare time, she is involved in various other local D.C. activism and environmental conservation projects. You can follow her work and activism on Twitter @sheermean.

Sub-specialties:
- Self-managed abortion with pills, crisis pregnancy centers, the criminalization of abortion and pregnancy outcomes, abortion doula/full spectrum doula support, reproductive justice, direct action organizing, protest, D.C. statehood and local politics.
- Horror films, racial representation in the genre
- Middle East social movements, Iranian politics